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by EricJ
December 23rd, 2023, 4:59 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: The state and future of animation
Replies: 588
Views: 214519

Re: The state and future of animation

Why is Japanese animation so popular, despite that country being where most American animation was outsourced to four decades ago? Four decades ago, when Starblazers was on local stations, I asked that same question. Three-and-a-half decades ago, I took a wrong turn at a gaming convention and saw t...
by EricJ
December 17th, 2023, 5:42 am
Forum: On Television
Topic: The DOCTOR WHO Thread
Replies: 311
Views: 153686

Re: The DOCTOR WHO Thread

Meanwhile, on the Classic front: Those who haven't been able to watch the nearly-complete Classic Who on Britbox in the US can now catch the Classic episodes, organized by Doctor era collection, free-with-ads on TubiTV-- Or, for those starting out, a sampler collection of two or three best story arc...
by EricJ
December 5th, 2023, 11:06 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney Pixar's Turning Red
Replies: 136
Views: 57705

Re: Disney Pixar's Turning Red

More like "So it isn't a total loss...", for those who never had D+, and to make them "official" theatrical movies, even though most of them are on disc now. Still, it's the same problem when Fantasia 2000 opened in regular theaters in June '00: Everyone had knocked themselves out seeing it in the I...
by EricJ
December 5th, 2023, 10:53 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Into, Across and Beyond the Spider-Verse
Replies: 52
Views: 26331

Re: Into, Across and Beyond the Spider-Verse

Review for Across the Spider-Verse is up! https://animatedviews.com/2023/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse/ Bumping this one after six months, now that it's on Netflix: (Just think, we used to have to pay to rent last summer's movies we missed in theaters!) I agree, there's too much filler--Maybe ...
by EricJ
December 5th, 2023, 10:34 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Replies: 935
Views: 384876

Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe

And marvels opens to $47m. Again, many movies would love to open to that, but this is an mcu film. This is really low for them! It's down there with incredible hulk and inhumans the movie! There was an Inhumans MOVIE, or was it just distributed theatrically overseas? (Unless you meant Eternals, and...
by EricJ
December 1st, 2023, 2:29 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66594

Re: Disney's Wish

Sorry to hear Wish is terrible, but then I wasn’t really expecting otherwise. I just don't think Jennifer Lee is the person to be running Disney… Could have done so much more for a proper 100th anniversary movie. From the start, Wish just sounded so insipid! I know I Cassandra'ed this earlier on, b...
by EricJ
November 29th, 2023, 10:42 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66594

Re: Disney's Wish

Of course, nowadays, the young kids like to use:
Image
but we take your meaning.
by EricJ
November 29th, 2023, 6:08 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Disney's Wish
Replies: 164
Views: 66594

Re: Disney's Wish

Soul, Turning Red, Lightyear, the last six MCU, Strange World, Encanto, Artemis Fowl... Despite my loyalty for getting folks back in to the theaters, I just haven't been having much luck with the Disney movies I passed on and waited for D+ instead. They tend to confirm my better judgment. (Well, oka...
by EricJ
November 28th, 2023, 5:21 pm
Forum: On Television
Topic: New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+
Replies: 2007
Views: 667407

Re: New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

Oo, is "Christmas with Walt Disney" another rare 50s-60s special from the Archive, or just D+'s own thrown-together cash-in?

I dare not hope they finally dug up Walt's Peter Pan Christmas-special that never appeared on the discs like the Alice special did. :(
by EricJ
November 25th, 2023, 6:18 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: Oral history for 30th anniversary of We’re Back!
Replies: 4
Views: 7656

Re: Oral history for 30th anniversary of We’re Back!

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story has a great *look* to it, but the film goes nowhere! It is, however, completely batty, random and nonsensical that it’s kind of loveable for those reasons. This was early-90s, back before Spielberg and Katzenberg got together to make more DreamWorks Lion King clones, ...
by EricJ
November 24th, 2023, 10:03 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Star Trek
Replies: 417
Views: 270008

Re: Star Trek

(Darn, before clicking, I thought it was going to be the Holy Ayy Pledjii...)
by EricJ
November 22nd, 2023, 6:56 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: WB Archive Collection: Discs On Demand!
Replies: 1136
Views: 505115

Re: WB Archive Collection: Discs On Demand!

Hahahaha…"semi-classic". Night At The Opera and Day At The Races are considered the apex of their MGMs, with (slightly) more coherent plots than even their gag-based Paramounts. So the Marxes is a must — one of their best — (Groucho gives Margaret Dumont a horse pill) Lawyer: "Isn't that a little l...
by EricJ
November 21st, 2023, 4:24 pm
Forum: On Television
Topic: Charlie Brown Specials
Replies: 268
Views: 232407

Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Randall wrote:
November 20th, 2023, 12:29 am
Here's my annual look at our Charlie Brown Christmas display. I'm in the centre of the yard in the second photo, setting it up.
Neighborhood lights and display contest??
Ohhh, even our own Randall's gone commercial!
by EricJ
November 14th, 2023, 5:18 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Garfield
Replies: 167
Views: 154455

Re: Garfield

One Twitter user pointed out a rather notable point about 20's animateds: https://twitter.com/TheRealJimsYT/status/1724110710651728054 Just like Mario before, Chris Pratt's Garfield also has daddy issues. How hard was it to make a story about Garfield, Odie, and Jon? Why should anyone care about Gar...
by EricJ
November 12th, 2023, 7:03 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: YouTube Goodness
Replies: 1029
Views: 458844

Re: YouTube Goodness

Even Disney+ is jumping on the "Modern trailer" trend for overlooked Ron Miller-era titles: